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Recent blog posts from the people behind Nitric
Blog Entry Clementine = excellent music player
Having the right music player is vitally important to being able to get dev work done.
Blog Entry FakeExcel class
To get the iMC client running on Ubuntu I wrote this FakeExcel class.
Blog Entry We have moved!
After many years of the Bandwidth Barn, we have moved to 78 Strand Street.
Blog Entry SciTE - how I configure my python editor of choice
SciTE is what I want from an editor - fast, highly configurable and not Eclipse.
Blog Entry disper - for easily switching displays & resolutions on the fly in Ubuntu
Thanks to disper I can easily switch between primary and secondary monitors or changing resolutions without restarting X even if using the Nvidia drivers.
Blog Entry Themeroller Dev Tool Bookmarklet
For the last few months the very useful Themeroller Dev Tool Bookmarklet has been broken in newish versions of Firefox. I've posted a fixed version.
Blog Entry Old Rotary Dialler telephones
Making a little 10-telephone exchange using a 10 channel sound card and some Arduino's.
Blog Entry Reading The Daily Maverick on Kindle
I love the Daily Maverick but frustratingly they don't offer a Kindle edition - Calibre to the rescue!
Blog Entry listen.py: Little script to stream internet radio for an hour and then stop
To avoid accidentally wasting lots of bandwidth I made this little python script that will play an internet stream using gstreamer for an hour and then stop.
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